Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-08-26
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Principles of the Party--State
MatterS-- Blaine lndOrSed--
And Good Words For Glad
stone.

And Good Words For Glad
stone.
TIE following is the platform adopt
ed at the Republican State Conven-
ton held ut Harrisburg, August l7th
instant:
The Republican party of Penn'a'
in convention assembled, declare:
FIRST. That they reaffirm their
declaration of 1886 in favor of submit.
ting to a vote of the people the pro
hibitory constitutional amendment.
We also indorse the action of the
last Legislature in the submission of
the amendment making suffrage free
bv abolishing the tax qualification
for q vote.
SECOND We favor tariff for the
sake of nurturing American manufac'
lures until the industries and resour-
ces of this country furnish its people
with every item of consumption they
can naturally produce, and for the
purpose of protecting home labor
against foreign labor, as we'll as its
products. 1t is likewise the part of
that protective policy. of which Pa.
has been the parent. to protect Amer
lean workmen from the unequal and
unjust competition of imported con-
tract and pauper labor, and we de-
mand the passage of more vigorous
national laws for the scrutiny of inn
migration and the return of the unfit
and the unworthy. In this connec-
tion we declare our abhorrence of an
archist ideas and propositions, de-
structive of the rights of property
and our system of society and gov
ernment. Their resultant violations
of the law should be visited with
prompt and extreme penalties:
THIRD. We favor the creation of
an American marine by the provision
of bounties upon exports and dis
eliminating duties upon imports in
American bottoms.
FOURTH. The soldiers of the Un-
ion are worthy of the lasting graft
tude and continued favor of q restored
government, and the surplus in the
Treasury cannot better be distributed
than in the enlargement of the gen.
eral pension list, so as to include all
honorably discharged soldiers of the
Union army who may be in absolute
need of public aid.
FIFTH We approve the action of
the Legislature touching the revenues
of the Commonwealth in diverting a
large portion of the direct State tax
and the receipts from licenses to the
Treasures of the different cities and
counties, and especially iudorse that
part of the general revenue bill which
continued to impose the support of
the State Government upon the cor
porations of the Commonwealth and
brought within the purview of the
law for taxation a large amount of
moneys at interest in the hands of
corporations net previously reached.
We believe that new bill perfecting
these features should be matured by
the commission charged with that
duty, with the view of having it sub
mitted to the present Legislature for
enactment in time to meet the assess
ment of next year, providing that the
Governor shall deem the calling of al
extra session for this purpose such an
extraordinary occasion as is comtem-
plated by the twelfth section of the
fourth article of the Constitution.
SIXTH. We give an unqualified
Endorsement to the Republican State
administration. By careful and con.
scientious discharge of duty it has
reflected high credit upon the party
which called it into power, and gives
assurance to the people of an econom-
ical and wise administration OF the
affairs of the Commonwealth.
SEVENTH. We arraign the Demo
cratic party and the present national
administration for the general imbe-
cility in dealing with all great na-
tional questions. The only energy
they have exhibited has been in the
displacement of experienced officers
without cause and in direct violation
of their civil service pledges. The
national administration seems to have
no policy beyond expediency and no
principle beyond tie establishment of
its succession. In order to preserve
a solid Democratic South President
Cleveland has endsBvored to nurture
sectionalism by the preference to dis.
tinguished station of soldiers promi.
nent in efforts to destroy the eIgovern-
ment; by his refusal to sanction pen.
sions to soldiers eminent in efforts to
sustain it. and by his proposition to
take from among the national trophies
the banners of an extinct military
power won by the lavish expenditure
of the blood and treasure of the coun-
try to surrender them to those whom
be supposed to inherit it's prejudices
and who were without desire or
authority to receive them.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania,
the native State of James g. Blaine,
will view with high pleasure his
nomination for the Presidency 10 the
campaign of 1888. Accident can not
abate the love of a great party nor
the admiration of great people for
statesman true alike to his convic-
tions and to his country.
RESOLVED, That while we gladly
recognize some change for the better
in the sentiment of some portions of
the Southern States in reference to the
colored citizens, it would be contrary
to Republican principles not to ex.
press our detestation and our opposi-
ii on to the discrimination still prac-
ticed, because of color, against the
citizens when travelling on the public
highways of certain portions of the
South, and we earnestly appeal to
our sister States where such wrongs
exist and to the national government
to remedy this injustice.
RESOLVED, That this convention
recommends that in the nomination
of candidates for Congress and the
State Senate the nominations be